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G’day, Russ here from Prime Motion Training. Today I want to answer the question, “What can I do if I’m not happy with my Victoria Place entrance exam score?” Let’s discuss it.

00:15 – Should you cancel and reapply in 12 months?

Okay, once you’ve completed your entrance exam and you have your final score, if you’re not happy with it, you can simply book in for another exam and go back and try and get a better score right?

Well, that’s not quite true. You can do that, but first you would need to cancel your application, you would then be excluded from re-applying for a minimum of 12 months and then you would be able to re-apply and go back and sit the entrance exam and try and get a better score.

If you’re not happy with your score you can cancel your application and apply again in 12 months

Now before you do that, it’s important that we cover a couple of aspects.

00:45 – Exam is important but you can make it back up

Okay, so before you run off and cancel your application, we need to discuss that not that long ago, the scoring system for applicants was heavily based on the entrance exam results. In fact, 50% of what ended up in your final applicant score was determined by how well you did in that entrance exam.

So if you’re not happy with your exam score, there’s still plenty of opportunity through the rest of the application process to build your score back up again and make a good impression and ultimately end up in a good position on the order of merit.

If you’ve scored low don’t give up as you can make it up by scoring well in other areas

01:34 – What is a competitive score

Now if you’ve done really well in your entrance exam and you’ve got a good competitive score, and you then continue to do well through the rest of the process, you may very well end up at the top of the waiting list (order of merit) and that will result in going into the academy fairly quickly.

So if you don’t have a competitive exam score, don’t lose heart, there’s still plenty of opportunities to make up some ground, but just to put things into perspective, for some time now a competitive exam score has been considered around 200. The maximum score you can achieve is 248. So if you’re anywhere near 200, that means that you’re off to a very good start and just need to keep up that good work, maintain that momentum as you go through the rest of the process.

If you’re not quite at that 200 score, don’t lose heart, there are still opportunities to make up ground, it just means you need to work hard to make up some ground so that at the end of the process, you’re still in a competitive position on that all-important order of merit.

The maximum exam score is 248 and if you’ve scored around 200 then you’re off to a good start

Okay, well, I hope you found that helpful. If you have any questions about what we’ve discussed today, by all means reach out and say g’day. Otherwise, I’ll chat to you again in another discussion soon.